http://greekgeek.mythphile.com Adventures in Blogging and Article Writing (since 1993) Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:56:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/11/more-tips-for-building-amazon-associate-links/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/11/more-tips-for-building-amazon-associate-links/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:03:51 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1792 I’m always fiddling with ways to display Amazon Associate links with big bold images and appealing layouts so they get more clicks. I’ve got a few tricks I use all the time. They’re fast, and I do them almost without thinking about it. Unfortunately, when I try to explain them, they look scary, because the […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/11/more-tips-for-building-amazon-associate-links/feed/ 3 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/11/squidoo-tip-caption-lens-graphics/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/11/squidoo-tip-caption-lens-graphics/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 01:01:51 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1740 Eureka! Why didn’t I figure this out sooner? There is a fairly simple CSS way to force a caption (including an image caption with clickable link) to hang out directly under a Squidoo lens logo or an image uploaded into the text module! Ta-da! Actual screencap of a lens! Here. I have, of course, created a […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/11/squidoo-tip-caption-lens-graphics/feed/ 0 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/07/css-squidoo-lens-desig/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/07/css-squidoo-lens-desig/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:49:00 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=586 I think that to date, the Squidoo Museum is my best lens as far as presentation, although the Fancy Table of Contents lens comes close. I’d like to talk about how I put together the Squidoo Museum. It demonstrates everything I know about graphics, color, fonts, and CSS. First, I built the content. I knew […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/07/css-squidoo-lens-desig/feed/ 5 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/06/advanced-css-tricks-and-tips/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/06/advanced-css-tricks-and-tips/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:45:42 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=583 I finally got around to updating my Advanced CSS lens, where I used to post crazy “lab experiments” in CSS. Now I’ve reorganized it and made it more dignified (slightly), and added all the tricks I tend to use most on my lenses: rounded corners, background-images for paragraphs, captions under aligned images, drop caps, dramatic […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/06/advanced-css-tricks-and-tips/feed/ 0